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Students in Professor Amy Young ’s Fall and Spring Strategic Communication classes created a crowdfunding campaign with Undue Medical Debt that raised nearly $19,000 which, in turn, settles nearly $1.9M in medical debt for our neighbors in Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Students researched key audiences…
nearly $19,000 which, in turn, settles nearly $1.9M in medical debt for our neighbors in Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Students researched key audiences through surveys and focus groups, strategized and planned communications to reach those audiences, and learned to run significant fundraising campaigns. Undue Medical Debt is the only nonprofit in the medical debt forgiveness sector. Students chose to work on this campaign for their neighbors in the Pacific Northwest, and to use their education in
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Super Bowl Sunday is nearly here, and the PLU community is abuzz about this weekend’s big game! I invite the entire campus to participate in PLU Blue Friday on Jan. 30! Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to dress in your favorite Seahawks attire. Post your photos/tweets…
about higher education December 2, 2016
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The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Summer Undergraduate Fellowship Program is a 10 week summer program designed to provide opportunities for undergraduate university students to gain experience in medical physics by performing research in a medical physics laboratory or assisting with clinical service…
receives a $5,500 stipend from AAPM. The stipend is based upon an expectation of 40-hour per week effort for 10 weeks. See the (AAPM) Summer Undergraduate Fellowship Program Flyer for more information and to apply. Application Deadline: February 3, 2021 Read Previous University of Washington Molecular Engineering Materials Center (MEM-C) Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates Read Next 2021 DREAM – Diversity Recruitment through Education and Mentoring Program LATEST POSTS Dept of Energy
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You are invited to join the Master’s Industrial Internship Program at the University of Oregon’s Knight Campus and PLU Physics Alumni to talk about how to launch your career and get a master’s at the same time. Zoom Alumni Panel & Info Session Tuesday, November 10th 4PM Pacific RSVP HERE…
. Historically, close to 98% of our students successfully complete internships and close to 90% of those land regular jobs within 3 months of completing the internship. Average annualized internship compensation for materials tracks so far this year is over $60,000. Send Questions: lynde@uoregon.edu Read Previous Scholarships for Graduate Studies at the Institute for Shock Physics Read Next Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP) LATEST POSTS Dept of Energy Computational Science Graduate
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Jodie Rottle ’10 Finds Fame Even Without a Direct Roadmap By Shunying Wang ’15 and Sandy Deneau Dunham, PLU Marketing & Communications As far as Jodie Rottle ’10 can recall, she started to play the flute because her sister randomly suggested it. Good call, Jodie Rottle’s sister. Rottle,…
.” So after PLU, Rottle entered a one-year program at Purchase College, State University of New York, to work toward a Performer’s Certificate with a teacher she had met at a music festival in Canada. From there, Rottle was admitted to the prestigious Manhattan School of Music to complete her master’s degree in Contemporary Performance. “Studying for that year between PLU and doing the master’s was really eye-opening,” Rottle said. “It was inspiring as an artist just to see what I could do with my
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The plant Arabidopsis thaliana produces seeds so minuscule that 5,000 can fit on a thumbnail. This past summer student-researchers Bryan Dahms ’13 and Ben Sonnenberg ’14 counted more than 30,000 seeds as part of a study. (Photo by John Froschauer) Planting the seeds of knowledge…
Sonnenberg ’14, counting 30,000 seeds so minuscule that 5,000 can fit on a thumbnail. It took days. Dahms asked himself, “What did I get myself into?” As a biology major who has an interest in molecular biology and hopes to go to medical school, he never thought he’d be studying plants as part of a student-faculty research project. “I really didn’t care for plants all that much,” he said. “But I came in with an open mind of what I can do and what I can learn, and really had one of the best summers of my
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Wall-raising of the Habitat for Humanity home for Dianna and David Sullivan sponsored by PLU and Thrivent Financial on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013. Dianna Sullivan is a graduate student studying Marriage and Family Therapy. (Photo/John Froschauer) Update: Dedication Ceremony Set for Jan. 25, 2014 Building,…
East Campus with the intention of capturing her classroom environment—but then realized school didn’t actually start for another week. So Sullivan flipped through her textbook and wrote on the whiteboard for art’s sake only—but with a happy surprise: “I’m actually getting work done,” Sullivan said. “I found a really good quote for my paper!” The Habitat crew followed Sullivan downstairs, to the Couples & Family Therapy Center, where she had worked with clients before starting her internship at
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A Flutist’s Unplanned Path to Success Internationally renowned flutist Jodie Rottle ’10 advises undergraduates without a clear plan to pause, make slow progress and explore as many new possibilities as they can. (Photo courtesy Jodie Rottle) Jodie Rottle ’10 Finds Fame Even Without a Direct…
about the academic side of it; it is more about the training.” So after PLU, Rottle entered a one-year program at Purchase College, State University of New York, to work toward a Performer’s Certificate with a teacher she had met at a music festival in Canada. From there, Rottle was admitted to the prestigious Manhattan School of Music to complete her master’s degree in Contemporary Performance. “Studying for that year between PLU and doing the master’s was really eye-opening,” Rottle said. “It was
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TACOMA, WASH. (Dec. 7, 2018) — The familiar coffee house on the corner of Garfield and C St. is open for business once again, with a new owner and a new name: Notes’ Coffee Company. Proud new proprietor John Gore has PLU students and Parkland…
at the coffee house with classmates to work on a school project and appreciated what Gore’s cultivating in the space. “We enjoyed playing chess and looking through various books we could rent out, and sinking into a comfy couch,” she said. “We were able to sit down and chat over soup, pastries, freshly made sandwiches and coffee.” Gore has a entrepreneurial background, building businesses from the ground up. He’s an eclectic man who’s successfully tried his hand at newspapers, computers and ice
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Why did you decide to study music? What sparked your interest in music and how did your academic path and career develop from there? It was a family business for me, so to speak. My father was my first teacher in both piano and trombone,…
early age. I did find that it was what affirmed me the most, as I suspect is true for many of our students. What is your educational background? I attended public schools in central Iowa and then earned a BM with an Education Certification from the University of Iowa. Next was a MM in Trombone Performance and Literature from the University of Notre Dame, and finally a DMA in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Iowa. I consider my major teachers to have been John Hill and Frank Crisafulli as
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